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Urban Playscapes: 14 Interactive Installations in NYC
New York City is essentially one massively oversized playground, with interactive art installations ranging from vibrating inflatable globes stuffed under the High Line to mazes in Madison Square ...
Empty Spaces: Photo Book Documents Eerie Urban Ruins
Crumbling cathedrals, decaying theaters and half-destroyed camping cabins: urban explorer Johnny Joo has seen it all, and he doesn't just document these abandoned places, he does so with an eye for ...
Hack Your City: 12 Creative DIY Urbanism Interventions
If city officials won't do their part to make public spaces more fun, efficient, useful, comfortable and creative, citizens will take matters into their own hands. DIY urbanism, or 'hacktivism,' ...
Nomadic Urbanism: Futuristic ‘Walking City’ Draws on History
The notion of a mobile city is not new, but in this case, the architect has gone to great lengths to construct a vision that could conceivably be built. So while it may look like fantasy at first ...
Guerrilla Wayfinding: User-Powered Signs Aid Exploration
What are you missing out on in your own city by sticking to your established routes each day, or driving instead of walking? Sometimes it's easy to forget how close any number of interesting ...
Urban Apps: 13 Interactive City Maps, Tools & Guides
Chances are, even if you're a lifelong resident of a particular city, you don't know every nook and cranny, every food truck location, or the lore of every interesting local building. Apps for ...
Japan’s Urban Spaceship: The Omiya Rocket Building
Let's do launch! The shiny, streamlined, sc-fi styled Rocket Building dominates an otherwise unremarkable downtown street near Omiya Station in Saitama, just north of Tokyo, Japan. Home to rental ...
WebUrbanist Update: 5 Years & 50 Million Visitors Later
Five years ago, who would have thought that what started as an offbeat visual culture weblog would turn into a full-fledged (but still and always free) cosmopolitan online magazine? After just ...
Face to Face: 29 Explorations In Facial Art, Design & Imagery
Sculptors in ancient history are the only ones who ever had time to truly study the human form and create beautiful works of art out of it, right? Wrong. Modern sculptors and artists have been ...
